A talk with Xavier Carpent, a lecturer specialising in Cyber Security and with a specialisation in applied cryptography and authentication.

Our annual hackathon! HackNotts is a 24-hour hackathon where you and up to 3 other people can create anything, and win prizes! For more information, go to https://hacknotts.com :D

Come and learn about creative coding with Lana! You will be taken through creating your first p5.js project and integrating it into a webpage. No experience in web development or JavaScript is required :)

Want to become a hacker? Looking to bash hardware together, code up silly games, and create technical monstrosities? Join HackSoc Veteran and PhD student Adrian in for some Hackathon basics for fresh Hackers! No experience required: You don’t need to be a computer science student!

Want to get better at programming challenges and competitions? Join HackSoc’s Development Secretary and 4th year student Indraneel as we dive into competitive programming and how to improve your skills within the scene! No prior experience or knowledge needed - only that you know basic programming.

Learn the fundamentals of programming with Python! Perfect for if you want to get into programming or want to learn Python.

Our Welcome Talks! - Where we will give short talks (15 mins) about HackSoc and what we do as a society. There’s also free pizza!

During this, we’ll be all voting on the commitee members for the 2024-2025 academic year. We’ll also vote to any changes this year to the constitution. If you want to see the candidates and changes, you can have a look on our Github: https://github.com/HackSocNotts/nominations/issues You can also create an issue there if you wish to nominate yourself, until the AGM. Please come by to LT2, Exchange Building if you want to make your voice heard! Read more...

Join us for our pub crawl, running jointly with the Medieval Combat Society (MCS). We will be going through Liquid Light Brewery, Neon Raptor, Angel Microbrewery, and BrewDog Nottingham. Hope to see you there!

During this event, our president will be covering the basic features of Rust, covering concepts like syntax, enums, structs and borrow-checkers. We will cover some of the basic features, and work towards implementing a LinkedList library in Rust. Here is a good resource on the area, the Intro to Rust book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/